Second Cup and Montreal's Jewish General Hospital cancelled a store owner's contract after they say she was filmed allegedly performing the Hitler salute at a protest on Friday.

Two Second Cup café locations at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital have been shut down after the franchise owner was filmed making Nazi references at a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday. The CEO of Foodtastic,

Idit Shamir, the Israeli Consul General in Toronto, thanked Second Cup for acting swiftly. “Imagine chanting ‘The Final Solution is coming’ and throwing a Nazi salute at @Concordia — while running a café at Jewish General Hospital, a place built by Holocaust survivors,” the Toronto-based official wrote on X.

Second Cup Canada has taken decisive action to terminate the franchise agreement of a café owner after video footage emerged of her allegedly chanting antisemitic slogans and performing a Nazi salute at a protest in Montreal.

A Montreal hospital network is siding with Second Cup after the coffee retailer dumped one of its franchisees for antisemitic behaviour.

WARNING: The story below contains antisemitic remarks and an image of a woman making a Nazi salute.Two Second Cup café locations at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital have been shut down and the franchise owner's contract terminated after the individual was filmed at a protest on Thursday making "hateful remarks and gestures,

Second Cup Café has closed one of its franchise locations in Montreal following allegations of hateful remarks and gestures made by the franchisee in a video that was widely circulated online during a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday.